Math Educator & Mama

My Story

After earning my B.A. in Economics from Stanford University, I started my career as a math educator, initially as a high school math teacher and then as the founder of a math tutoring business in San Francisco. In my spare time, I learned to program computers and landed myself a job in the tech world, where I worked my way up, ultimately managing engineering teams at Pinterest. While I enjoyed the technical challenges of my job, I yearned for human connection and a sense of impact.

After taking some time off, I began to volunteer in my daughter’s classroom and invest time thinking about creative ways to teach her number sense. During that time, I often found myself reflecting upon my time working with the older students: a kid who had strong foundations but was stumbling with a new concept was always easy to get back on track, but for a student who still struggled with basic integer operations, the path was much longer and more difficult. Moreover, her confidence in herself had long been lost, and this was perhaps the hardest battle to fight.

Through this journey, I realized that I had a unique opportunity to nurture a fondness for and aptitude in math amongst the kids in our community, starting early. With this goal in mind, I launched a series of after school math enrichment classes. Come and join me!